Space weather could cost the satellite industry $40 billion in a single storm. A 15-person startup is building the forecast.

There are more than 8,000 active satellites in orbit. By 2030, there will be more than 25,000. A single geomagnetic storm, the kind the sun produces several hundred times during a solar maximum, could cost the satellite industry $40 billion. In February 2022, a moderate storm knocked 40 freshly launched Starlink satellites out of orbit, […] This story continues at The Next Web